V. I. Lenin

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

APRIL 12–27 (APRIL 25–MAY 10), 1905

O.C. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
CONGRESS{1}

Concerningthe point of the agreement between the C.C. and
the M.C.B. under which the Congress shall open in the presence of
three-quarters of the delegates of the Russian committees, the
O.C. resolves:

Bothsides, making up the O.C., see this point as meaning that both the
C.C. and the M.C.B. should have taken the most vigorous measures to achieve
full representation at the Congress and also to guarantee to the Party that
the C.C. and the M.C.B. have set themselves the aim of organising an
all-Party and not a factional congress. This pointof the agreement was not at all meant to offset the effect of the paragraph
of the Party’s Rules under which a congress is valid in the presence of
one-half of the total number of votes. As for the plenitude of
representation at the Congress, all measures have been taken on that
score. There is no news only from the Astrakhan and the Crimean
committees. The selection of delegates and their dispatch abroad (in two
instances, transfer of mandates from the Kuban Committee to comrades
abroad, Parvus and a person to be appointed by theIskraEditorial
Board) have been carried out by the Don, Gornozavodsk, Kiev, Kuban, Tver,
Kharkov, Smolensk, Siberian and Yekaterinoslav committees. Together with
the delegates available from 19 committees, we would have, with these
9 committees, a total of 28 committees, that is, more than three-quarters
Out of 34 committees (the figure of 34 is the maximum number of empowered
organisations initially on the O.C. list).

If9 delegates from the said committees have failed to turn up at the
Congress, despite the fact that they were given the corresponding mandates
from the committees and arrived abroad, their absence is due to no fault of
the O.C., but to the fact that all the efforts of the O.C. to achieve full
representation at the Congress were frustrated by the illegal resistance of
the three members of the Party Council.

{1}This is a draft of point five of the resolution adopted by the
Organising Committee for Convening the Third R.S.D.L.P. Congress on
April 11 (24), 1905 (seeTrety syezd R.S.D.R.P., pp. 31–32). The
basic propositions of this document were alsoincluded in the resolution on the constitution of the Congress motioned by
P. A. Krasikov (Belsky), M. S. Leshchinsky (Zharkov) and M. M. Litvinov
(Kuznetsov) at the third sitting of the Congress on April 13 (26), and
adopted at its fifth sitting on April 14 (27), 1905 (ibid., p. 96).

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